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THE OOLOGISt 



Jack, Miner, Kingsville, Ontario, 40 

 miles southeast of Detroit. This man, 

 beginning with nothing, has now an 

 annual visitation from 2,000 or 3,000 

 Canada Geese, many of whom are so 

 tame that on April 22nd, 1920, I was 

 within 50 yards of the farthest away 

 of 400 and over. They come right 

 to his house, and settle down calmly 

 before any number of visitors. On 

 April 25 there were 83 automobiles at 

 once in front of his place, whose pas- 

 sengers were enjoying the novel sight. 



The beginning of the story reaches 

 back to 1905 when he bought 4 pin- 

 ioned Canadas, and it was several 

 years before he had his first wild 

 guests. Eleven came the first year, 

 then over 30, then 150 and now by 

 the thousand. Needless to say there 

 is no shooting, but the whole affair is 

 a living proof of how much more in- 

 teresting living things are than dead 

 ones. 



This year he has had 4 investigat- 

 ing committees of Swans fly over to 

 see if his place was really safe, but 

 apparently the report was adverse, 

 and they went back to the lake. Now, 

 he is after a pair of Whistlers to as- 

 sure those visitors that all is O. K. 



W. E. Saunders. 

 London, Ont. 



Redpoll and Cardinal at Hawthorne, 

 N. J., During Winter of 1919-1920. 



On February 8th, 1920, the writer 

 observed a single male Redpoll (Acan- 

 this linaaria) feeding on the weed- 

 seeds in a dooryard at Hawthorne, 

 N. J., during the middle afternoon. 

 This bird remained for about an hour 

 in this particular dooryard and fur- 

 nished ample opportunity to positive- 

 ly identify it as the writer was at 

 work in a small shop at the rear of 

 this property and was able to get 

 within five feet of this bird by means 

 of a window without making any 



noise to frighten this rather rare vis- 

 itant. This is the first record for 

 about five years that he has secured. 

 Its appearance now is probably due to 

 the severe snowstorm which was pre- 

 valent for three days during which 

 approximately fourteen inches of snow 

 fell and which caused no end of scar- 

 city of natural food for our feathered 

 friends. Both his wife and the winter 

 have spread many common bird seeds 

 at this spot since the storm and have 

 been rewarded by observing numbers 

 of Song Sparrows, Tree Sparrows, 

 Slate-colored Juncoes, and Chickadees, 

 and about a large piece of suet placed 

 here several White-breasted Nut- 

 hatches, a Downy, and numerous Blue 

 Jays have fed. 



On December 23, 1919, in a copse of 

 woods, principally oak and hickory, 

 the writer observed a Cardinal feed- 

 ing on the ground in the same man- 

 ner as the Chewink and later flying 

 about and whistling in the trees 

 above. This is rather north of its 

 usual range and the only record the 

 writer has been able to secure at this 

 latitude. The nearest record he has 

 obtained was at Branch Brook Park, 

 Newark, N. J., nine miles to the 

 south, where on several occasions sin- 

 gle specimens were observed. 



The Sparrow Hawk (falce sparver- 

 ius) has been very common in Haw- 

 thorne, N. J., and in about Paterson, 

 N. J., throughout this winter. In fact 

 a pair have been seen continuously in 

 a field adjacent to the Passaic River 

 at Riverside (Paterson) each day 

 since December 29th, 1919. On Feb- 

 ruary 2d, a single bird was observed 

 near the Passaic Falls flying low over 

 the ice above the falls, and another 

 near here on the Totowa side of the 

 river on Feb. 8th. 



Louis S. Kohler. 

 Hawthorne, N. J. 



